Helicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers. But these “rotor heads” saved thousands of American lives while performing what the Army classified as the most dangerous job it had to offer. One in eighteen did not return home. Tom A. Johnson flew the UH-1 “Iroquois” — better known as the “Huey” — in the 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion of the First Air Cavalry Division. From June 1967 through June 1968, he accumulated an astonishin...

From June 1967 to June 1968, Tom Johnson accumulated an astonishing 1,600 flying hours piloting the UH-1 "Iroquois"—better known as the "Huey"—as part of the famous First Air Cavalry Division. His battalion was one of the most decorated units of the Vietnam War, and helped redefine modern warfare.Johnson's riveting memoir takes us into key battles and rescue missions, including those for Hue and Khe Sanh. In harrowing detail, he tells of being shot down in the battle of A Shau Vall...

Seventeen Authors Share Advice for Crafting, Publishing and Promoting Your WritingAsk the Authors is the ultimate writer's reference, with tips and advice on craft, publishing and marketing. Seventeen authors share what works for them and offer their keys to success in traditional publishing, hybrid, and indie. You'll learn industry wisdom from Lilly Rayman, Mark & Kym Todd, RA Winter, Tim Baker, Margareth Stewart, Tom Johnson, Janet Garber, Arthur Rosch, ...

The Mad Butterfly's Ball is an essential compendium of stories dedicated to the lurking horror and profound wonder of those that live, largely unseen, in the world around us—the enigmatic insect! Featuring original and new works by Clive Barker, Jeffrey Thomas, Kaaron Warren, Paul Di Filippo, Eugen Bacon, and many more, alongside classics of the subgenre, The Mad Butterfly's Ball is the largest and most comprehensive anthology of its kind, with stunning illustrations by R...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This written text was created using AI. Are you a man over 40 who feels tired, unfocused, and just not like yourself anymore? The declining energy, stubborn weight gain, brain fog, and diminished drive you're experiencing aren't inevitable parts of aging. They're signs that your hormones are out of balance, and this comprehensive guide shows you exactly how to fix that.Hormone Optimization for Men Over 40 is your science-based roadmap to r...

Driven brings a seasoned perspective to today's conversations about government, media, and the future of truth in the form of a deeply personal and long-awaited autobiography by Tom Johnson, an award-winning journalist who helped shape the twenty-four-hour news media as we know it. Johnson's storied career in public service and journalism that began as a reporter at the Macon Telegraph in Georgia spans the Lyndon B. Johnson administration, where he was an eyewitness to pa...

There were tens of thousands of different local law-courts in late-medieval England, providing the most common forums for the working out of disputes and the making of decisions about local governance. While historians have long studied these institutions, there have been very few attempts to understand this complex institutional form of 'legal pluralism'. Law in Common provides a way of understanding this complexity by drawing out broader patterns of legal engagement. Tom Johnson...

If you have picked up this book, you already know the central challenge of gluten-free cooking. Dinner, that daily question that every household faces, becomes infinitely more complicated when gluten is off the table. You cannot order pizza on the way home or grab a quick sandwich from the deli counter. You cannot rely on the boxed pasta dinner that your kids have always loved. Every single meal requires thought, planning, and a level of effort that can feel exhausting by the end of a long...

Galileo Galilei said he was “reading the book of nature” as he observed pendulums swinging, but he might also simply have tried to draw the numbers themselves as they fall into networks of permutations or form loops that synchronize at different speeds, or attach themselves to balls passing in and out of the hands of good jugglers. Numbers are, after all, a part of nature. As such, looking at and thinking about them is a way of understanding our relationship to nature. But when we do so in...

Behind every software idea sits a door that used to lock shut at the question: do you know how to code? This book hands you the key. No-Code to Pro-Code Bridge is a field guide for people who have never written code and are tired of waiting for a technical co-founder, a contractor, or permission. It turns you into someone who can direct an AI to build real, deployed software and spot bad output.Tom Johnson takes you from the mental models that separate shippers from dreamers to the...

Building a real backend used to mean hiring a backend engineer, standing up a database server, wiring authentication, configuring file storage, and writing an API layer nobody would ever see. It was slow, expensive, and easy to get wrong, and most of it was plumbing. Today something has changed. AI coding agents can write code, run commands, and hold a sustained conversation about architecture, and Supabase gives you the open-source backend built on PostgreSQL that makes the partnership wo...

In the world of rugby, the All Blacks have an unsurpassed legacy of success. We are the best of the best. Legends in Black comprises frank, no-holds-barred interviews with New Zealand rugby greats, each sharing their thoughts on every aspect of what it means to be an All Black: first selection, the haka, international and provincial rugby, professionalism, team culture, camaraderie, technical advances, coaching and leadership. A one-of-a-kind account of New Zealan...